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Delith (my druid) made 58 and has made her way to Hellfire. But there is a snag in her super leveling spree. Rest xp. See I took BBB’s advice on bind on account gear. She is leveling feral to reduce my downtime, because speed is king and I like smashing things with my face.

Notice anything specific? Perhaps that the shoulders and chest give me 20% exp boost from monsters and quests? *nods* Ohhh yeah. But you are wondering what downside could there possibly be? Bliz has already made leveling super fast and with the 20% boost it must be flying by?! And it is.

And there is the problem.My rested XP bar is going by so fast! A few kill quests and I’ve burned it all down. Nothing I hate more than leveling in the purple. It is still faster with the changes made but being in the game since launch has made me dread a purple exp bar. There is that mental nagging in the back of my head to log out get rest xp built up and come back later.

So what to do?

Well, if you are a hardcore raider and leveling an alt on the side this isn’t much of an issue. Most of your time is spent on your main all the while your alt is building up beautiful blue bubbles. Actually if you are a gatherer type person you are probably on all the time gathering those mat things people need and get the same result.

You could be leveling multiple alts switching them out as each burns up exp. Doing an alt round robin.

Or you could be one of those rare crazy people that…logs out of the game and does something in the real world instead. (which I think I will increasingly find myself doing now being a full time mom. who knew kids took up so much time! 😉 )

Do a mixture of them. I raid so on raid days alts don’t see much light, otherwise I switch between Delith and my dk Sember, all the while juggling the needs of a modern gamer geek family.

I still find great satisfaction in raising a toon up though. I really am loving the druid, if only her rest bar would stay in the blue! I’ve tried rotating my warrior Pookie back in to try and get her past 70…yeah it is slow going just can’t get the spunky oomph that she used to have which I really need to get into playing her.